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After being inducted into the country’s oldest undergraduate honor society, members of the Class of 2002 enjoyed a humorous speech and a poem about ambition at Phi Beta Kappa’s literary exercises yesterday...
Students should not be forced to read poems that do not interest them, she says. Instead she tells children to find a poem “that catches your attention and sticks with...
...granddaughter has adopted those lines, which appeared in his 1936 poem “Two Tramps in Mud Time,” to describe herself...
...instance, the first poem Sacks read, entitled “Head,” uses a poetic treatment of an African sculpture to reflect on the continent as a whole. The poem, Sacks told the audience, was written at the request of officials at Yale who solicited work from various poets on art in their Museums for the University’s tercentennial celebrtation. Another of the poems Sacks performed reflects the speaker’s experience of walking along a continental divide, exploring the scenery while expressing his emotional and intellectual response to literally being at the crossroads...
Other aspiring writers might have felt crushed about losing ownership of their own work. Not Keith. He rushed to the bookstore and found on the last page of a book about Mother Teresa a poem called “Anyway,” which comprised eight out of his 10 original “commandments.” The book attributed the poem to a sign on the wall of a children’s home in Calcutta where Mother Teresa spent time. “That was the hook…the credibility,” Keith says...